Harnds Giant Silkworm Tactical Folding Knife with SandvikSteel BladeG10 Handle Camping Pocket Knife with Reversible Pocket Clip (yellow)

The media could not be loaded. Bought this knife on a whim because of the price and I really wasn’t expecting much.. but I am very surprised and pleased with the quality of this knife. It came hair shaving sharp out of the box and the fit and finish of this knife is a lot better than I would have expected. It also has a nice heft for its size, not that it’s heavy by any means, but it feels quality made and not cheap. This knife also has a very strong detent and a rock solid lock up without any blade-play whatsoever. My only gripe would be with the stiffness of the axis lock, I can’t open it with just my thumb, I also have to pull down with my index finger on the other side. But I’m sure with some regular use and a little oil it will get buttery smooth over time. {The video included with this review was how it flipped just a few hours after opening it}Overall this is a very solid and attractive knife for the money and a great introduction into axis lock knives that won’t break the bank!!

I have ordered literally dozens of budget knives from Amazon, and this is by far the worst one yet. Original price $37.99 NO! I paid just over $26 and it isn't worth that. If you can get this thing for under $20 and you're desperate keep on reading.The G10 scales and 14c28n steel are good, the blade shape is good, and it is a full size knife. Those are the only positives. It came dull as a butter knife out of the box. It would only deploy with lots of thumb force. So, if you are ok with, and you know how, to sharpen and tune up a knife you can make this knife usable. After putting a razor edge on it and tightening the scale screws and pivot screw, then using more Ballistol than I've ever put in a knife, finally working the action like a horny rooster in a hen house, it operates acceptably. I do like the shape and it fits my hand well, so after more effort than I've ever put in a knife, it is just ok. For $26 you can get a hundred better knives here on Amazon, but if you like this design and you want to work on it to get it to a usable level then it is just barely above bad.UPDATE I want to hate this knife for all of the annoying factors I listed above, but I just can't. The more the knife breaks in, the more I like it! Action has smoothed out, it fits my XL hands well, solid lock up. As I initially said, this knife should not have had any of the issues it did right out of the box, but if you tune it up it's a decent knife. Added a star.

It used to be that you weren't getting a knife with this type of lock on it for under $100. They were patent protected up through 2014, so reputable knifemakers weren't trying to put them into production without an agreement with the two knifemakers who jointly held the axis lock patent (McHenry and Williams). When the patent expired, the company that had near exclusively licensed it, but never held the patent (Benchmade) aggressively defended their trademark on the words 'Axis Lock', and it's arguable they were trying to deter other knifemakers from picking up the locking mechanism altogether.Now you're starting to see other firms bringing it to market. Harnds has had a decent axis lock available through its Tonife line for a while, but until 2020 weren't releasing axis lockers under the Harnds moniker. Now in 2020 they're starting to do that. The Giant Silkworm is the second one they've released this year and it's quite simply an excellent knife all around, with a beautiful trailing point Sandvik blade, a grippy G-10 scale, solid ergonomics and a smooth action. Fit and finish is first rate. The lockup is very strong but there's no lock sticking at all going on -- a lot of new axis lockers show a touch of lock stick that requires some breaking in to do away with. This knife was good to go out of the box.This is 14C28N Sandvik, which is a modern nitrogen steel that takes and keeps an incredibly keen edge. Sandvik steels were originally made for razor blades and a little tinkering with the formula has produced an excellent and inexpensive knife steel that can be reliably heat treated over a 60 Rockwell hardness. And the blade is extremely sharp out of the box -- enough to trim clean curls from the edge of a post-it, which is what you want in terms of sharpness.Anything wrong with it? Not for this price, no. Harnds can still stand to ease back a bit on how many times they write their name on the knife and in what size font -- I get it, they're busting their ass to produce quality gear for a great price and they want people to know who's making the knife, but the knives are good enough that less is more. (Also, and this is minor, but they probably should have capitalized the 's' in 'Giant silkworm' when they engraved it on the knife. Just... looks a little funny, this way. For an axis locker under $40 it's an amazing value.Harnds has been around for a while as an OEM for companies like Boker and CRKT and it's more recent for them to release knives under their own branding. They clearly take pride in the name; I've gotten most of their product catalog by now and have never gotten a bad or even mediocre product and especially over the last year and a half they've really started getting outright impressive in their work, especially for the price. There's always a focus on grip and feel in the hand as you use the knife, which is IMO a sign of a mature knifemaker and not someone who's just got some wild looking designs.If you have $40 and you need an axis locking work knife that will take a super sharp edge without being terribly hard to touch up or sharpen, you can do far worse than the Giant Silkworm, but you'd have a hard time doing better.

Comfortable and really like the scale material color. Works like a champ and would not hesitate to buy again. Seller shipped quickly and arrived unscathed. Thank you!

This knife arrived very stiff out of the box. Blade centering was slightly off. Knife was very clean by value Chinese knife standards. I tried deploying the blade for a while, but that did not help, still very stiff. So I got out the T8 driver and worked on the pivot. The pivot was very tight, but it did adjust, I suppose it was not thread locked. I was able to balance smooth deployment with no blade wobble. After a day of deploying, opening some boxes, I am liking this knife. It is quite sharp, but not scary sharp. The handle is comfortable, a little longer than average for this blade length, no hot spots. The blade shape might be a challenge to free hand sharpen. I have the yellow one, I kind of like it, but my wife thinks it is not pretty. This is a bit of a brute, it is not elegant like a Benchmade, but it is a good tool.

Grind was a little off, the blade stock was not ground evenly, so looking at the knife from the spine, you can see there was more metal on one side than the other. Knife worked, deployment was ok, asix lock was stiff, handle was nice. Decent. Nothing wow, just decent.

Es ist schwergängig nicht wirklich scharf und die schneide ist nicht gleichmäßig. Die daumenpins sind scharfkantig. Es hat klingenspiel ..lock Rock . Sogar mit klingenspiel reibt es beim auf und zu machen. Da sind die gan zos schon besser mit dem achsis lock.das g10 ist sehr gut verarbeitet. Und es liegt auch gut in der Hand. Also es könnte besser sein.